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From Constructs to Crystals – Towards Structure Determination of β-barrel Outer Membrane Proteins
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Timothy J Knowles1, Douglas F Browning, Mark Jeeves

  • 1School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

EMBO Reports
|January 8, 2011
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